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Karachi: ‘143 minority members abducted in 3 years’

Karachi: ‘143 minority members abducted in 3 years’

KARACHI: A total of 143minoritycommunity members — 116Hindus and 27Christians — had been kidnapped in the province between March1, 2008 and Nov30, 2011, said SindhMinoritiesMinisterMohanLal on Monday. Of these kidnap victims, 57 were women, he added while responding to a question asked by PakistanPeople’sParty lawmaker Saleem Khursheed Khokhar, who belongs to the Christian minority community, during the question hour in the SindhAssembly. The house was informed that more than half of these people, 76 to be specific, had been kidnapped in urbanareas. Forty three of them had been abducted in Hyderabad and 33 in Karachi — 19 in the district east, nine in the south and five in the district west, the data showed.

NaushahroFeroz, Sanghar, TandoMohammadKhan, TandoAllahyar, Malir and central district of Karachi were the six districts where no minority community member had been kidnapped over the three and a half years, according to the data tabled by the minister in the assembly.

While 20 out of 33 people abducted in Karachi had been safely recovered, the status of 43 people kidnapped in Hyderabad was not available.

About the 57women victims, 19 were Christians and 38 were Hindus, the data showed.

Five out of six questions mentioned in the order of day were asked by MrKhokhar, while no supplementary question was asked.

The sixth question was to be asked by PML-F lawmaker NusratSeherAbbasi, but Speaker NisarKhuhro did not allow her to ask the question as she along with some other legislators were sitting on the floor of the assembly to lodge their protest against the SindhPeople’sLocalGovernmentOrdinance (SPLGO2012) bill that was tabled in the assembly and passed on Monday.

The question hour began over 1hour and 45minutes behind the scheduled time of 10am as printed in the order of the day and was completed shortly afterwards.